Thursday, February 14, 2008

I Am Link

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--- Camp Crystal Lake by way of... Austin? Doesn't it seem odd that they're shooting the Friday the 13th remake in Austin, Texas? I mean, I've never been to Austin so perhaps there are good woody parts of town, but I don't really think of deeps woods when I think of Austin. I think... Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory. Which was director Marcus Nispel's last horror remake. I don't know. Just seems odd to me. Seems like Friday the 13th would be shot in the Northeast. Although I must begrudgingly admit - I'm a poseur alert! - I have no idea where Camp Crystal Lake is supposed to be; I always just placed it up this way.

--- Juno 2: The ReHomeSkilleting - Was anyone clamoring for a sequel to Juno? The thought had never once occurred to me, but apparently, now that it's a money-maker, the thought occurred to somebody. Thankfully director Jason Reitman seems as flummoxed by the suggestion as I am.

--- The Pushed Backward Frontier - JJ Abrams Star Trek reimagineering has been shifted from Christmas this year to May of 2009. Which I think means they have faith in its ability to pillage the populace's pocketbooks, right?

--- Tonight at the Berlin Film Festival they're holding The Teddy Awards, which honor this year's Queer Cinema, and Band of Thebes did a kick-ass job highlighting all the entries. Loads of interesting stuff to behold, including a clip of Javier Bardem from last year's ceremony wearing, um, fake eyelashes. Those nutty foreign men!

--- Lost in the Indiana Shuffle, another much-anticipated-by-me trailer appears online today - the trailer for David Gordon Green's The Pineapple Express, a stoner comedy starring James Franco that marks Green's somewhat-strange entry into the Judd Apatow friendship-circle.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you're right re CCL...it's supposed to be somewhere in New York, I believe...I think there are New York plates sometimes...maybe other NY indicia, too, that elude me at the moment...the proximity to Manhattan bolsters this theory, no?

Anonymous said...

Yes, you've never been to Austin - though I live in San Francisco, I have family in Austin and it's nothing but woods, lakes

Pax Romano said...

Actually Friday the 13th(1) was filmed in Blairstown, NJ and if I recall, NJ license plates can be seen in the first film.

Anonymous said...

That's right! It was Jersey...not York...definitely not the same thing ;o)